In his haste to avoid the death penalty, Earl Holliman, found guilty of murdering his wife, pushes the hangman causing the latter to fall several feet to his death. Of course, after this, the real murderer commits suicide and Holliman is arrested for killing the hangman!
We have an interesting premise here, but the film gets bogged down with the young judge's affairs. One is with a schoolteacher who in the summer, gloats about her satisfactory rating in teaching from the past school year. The film takes place around 1924 in either New Mexico or Arizona, we've been a state now for 12 years is said during the film.
Veteran actress plays the young judge's mother- overbearing, critical and walking around smoking her cigars, are all indicative of her, but Jurado is given little more to do, far from her amazing performance with Spencer Tracy in "Broken Lance," 13 years prior to this film.
The young judge's dilemma on how to handle this usual case should have been at the forefront, and not suddenly proposing to a second cousin. His proposal reminded me of the late Louis Jordan's one to Leslie Caron in "Gigi." She grew up before my very eyes.
We have an interesting premise here, but the film gets bogged down with the young judge's affairs. One is with a schoolteacher who in the summer, gloats about her satisfactory rating in teaching from the past school year. The film takes place around 1924 in either New Mexico or Arizona, we've been a state now for 12 years is said during the film.
Veteran actress plays the young judge's mother- overbearing, critical and walking around smoking her cigars, are all indicative of her, but Jurado is given little more to do, far from her amazing performance with Spencer Tracy in "Broken Lance," 13 years prior to this film.
The young judge's dilemma on how to handle this usual case should have been at the forefront, and not suddenly proposing to a second cousin. His proposal reminded me of the late Louis Jordan's one to Leslie Caron in "Gigi." She grew up before my very eyes.